Martin Bashir Likes his Journalists Asian and Babelicious

August 1, 2008

Ah, nothing like throwing out an erection joke to a room full of...professional journalists.

I think his speech stepped beyond cheeky and fully immersed itself into the creepy category. He's like a less funny, not at all satiric version of Will Ferrell's "Anchorman", Ron Burgundy. But perhaps he's not entirely at fault. He does have a brain tumor.

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Sylvie Kim

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Sylvie Kim is a contributing editor at Hyphen. She previously served as Hyphen's blog coeditor with erin Khue Ninh, film editor, and blog columnist.

She writes about gender, race, class and privilege in pop culture and media (fun fun fun!) at www.sylvie-kim.com and at SF Weekly's The Exhibitionist blog. Her work has also appeared on Racialicious and Salon.

Comments

Comments

Gross! Dammit Martin Bashir.
I heard the speech in person, and yeah, it was crass.On the other hand, an AAJA tradition of auctioning off the speaker's tie was restarted this year, and Bashir's neck wear raised $2,100. He even bid on his own tie a few times to get the price up.